KOCHI : Kathakali, the classical dance that portrays stories from the epics through facial expressions, hand gestures and complex footwork, to the accompaniment of music, has for long remained an ...
The late Kathakali singer Kalamandalam Venmani Haridas was once performing Melappadam, a musical ensemble that is often a prelude to a Kathakali performance, in Mumbai. While singing the navabhava ...
Learning Kathakali in the 1970s, teenaged Sadanam K. Harikumar was disturbed by certain “skewed” portrayals of epic heroes in the dance-theatre. One such was Arjuna’s belittling replies to a ...
Organised by Tripunithura Kathakali Kendra as part of its monthly programme, Kamsa Janardhanam took the audience through the helplessness of Kamsa’s father Ugrasen, who was imprisoned by his own son; ...
Right from the first act of Kacha Devayani, when stagehands clad in cream and gold ceremonial clothing lift a multicoloured shroud before a lit lamp, it is clear the drama will mark a shift away from ...
A rabbi uses a traditional Indian dance form to retell the Passover story from Pharaoh’s perspective
“Pharaoh,” written by Rabbi Misha Shulman of The New Shul, stars Kathakali master Kalamandalam John. (New York Jewish Week) — Walking tall across the black stage of the East Village’s Theater for the ...
For over 250 years, Ayirur—a picturesque village on the banks of the holy river Pamba in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district—has been the centre of a long-standing tradition of promoting Kathakali—a ...
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